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This is less direct purchase advice per-se, more questions to help me make decisions among the monitors I’ve narrowed my choices to:

  1. The PG27UCDM’s sRGB Cal-mode’s brightness seems to be considerably lower than in other modes (113 nits at 80%). TFTCentral’s review of it also seems to suggest as much. That’s considerably too low for my tastes, but I’ve heard that the monitor’s also got a seperate “sRGB Color Space”-setting, which apparently has good colour accuracy, too, but can be used with other modes. My question being: do you guys have any data for this colour space, and/or colour measurements for the other modes, that you can share? This monitor seems really promising to me, but I don’t wanna’ sacrifice either brightness or colour accuracy for OLED!

EDIT: Actually, looking at TFTCentral’s review, Racing Mode + sRGB Color Space seems to have accurate colours… so this is more of a solved issue for me now, but I’d still appreciate any of you guys’ measurements! And I suppose I might as well ask: is TFTCentral’s flat, 2.2-gamma curve in the aforementioned measurements (https://tftcentral.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/srgb_1-1.png) comparable with the sRGB gamma curve RTINGS uses? That is, is ‘2.2’ the same on both scales?

  1. The Legion Y32p seems really good for me (typical IPS 1000:1 contrast and all), but that sRGB gamma curve strikes me as a bit low. Your review text refers to it as being only “slightly” brighter than the target, and Monitors Unboxed also doesn’t mention it as an issue, so… am I wrong to suspect that the image would look meaningfully brighter than intended? Of course, I realise that the only way to know for sure would be to look at it myself in person, but that’s unfortunately not an option (without straight-up buying it, that is). I suppose the 2.07 average gamma is still below your 0.1-noticeability threshold, and that it’s mostly brightening already-bright scenes, but I still thought to ask if you guys had anything to comment on that.

However, in that vein: 3. Do you think that upping the gamma in the settings would improve the gamma curve? Of course, I realise that that would probably raise all gamma equally - that is, it would also slightly over-darken darker scenes - but that would seem like an acceptable sacrifice for me, if doable. Another review that I read on the Legion Y32p (that I can’t quickly find right now) mentioned the image feeling a bit ‘washed out’, which was fixed by upping the gamma, so I guess the idea’s not completely crazy (Though let it be said that it was also the only review, of all the ones I’ve read, where the reviewer had an issue with the gamma)!

Thanks in advance, both for your answers and for all the invaluable work Rtings does!

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